Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.